{"id":6178,"date":"2014-08-08T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedemonow.com\/profitpro\/the-business-plan-that-never-fails\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T13:27:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T13:27:30","slug":"the-business-plan-that-never-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedemonow.com\/profitpro\/the-business-plan-that-never-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"The Business Plan that Never Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hs-migrated-cms-post\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-7329 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedemonow.com\/profitpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/businessplanblog.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/websitedemonow.com\/profitpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/businessplanblog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27288%27%20height%3D%27192%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20288%20192%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27288%27%20height%3D%27192%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/websitedemonow.com\/profitpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/businessplanblog-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/websitedemonow.com\/profitpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/businessplanblog.jpg 288w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/>Most organizations don\u2019t spend enough truly productive time attempting to improve the contol of their organization; these steps include oversight, measurement and manipulation of the organization\u2019s processes to fulfill the organization\u2019s sales and profit projections and the expectations of their customers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In fact, the lack of strategic control creates a good number of the problems in all organizations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not knowing what sales are really going to be<\/li>\n<li>Not knowing what employees are doing with their time<\/li>\n<li>Not knowing how many sales leads are required to be profitable<\/li>\n<li>Not knowing exactly how much time was being spent with face to face sales interviews<\/li>\n<li>Not knowing exactly what each and every customer wants<\/li>\n<li>Not knowing what products and services are in demand or will be in the future<\/li>\n<li>Not knowing how to cut costs while maintaining productivity<\/li>\n<li>Not knowing the exact price and cost on each job<\/li>\n<li>Not knowing customer\u2019s true satisfaction and rate of referrals<\/li>\n<li>Not knowing how to increase profits<\/li>\n<li>Not knowing where new more profitable opportunities are<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In fact, not knowing the answers to their questions is the cause of most of the frustrations organizations experience.<\/p>\n<p>If you solve the strategic control problems, you are well on your way to solving all of your people problems in business.<\/p>\n<p>Most Owners and Managers fail to exercise strategic control for one of two reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>They don\u2019t know how to do it.<\/li>\n<li>They thought it was unnecessary.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The fact is that it\u2019s not only possible to exercise strategic control but in today\u2019s environment, it is absolutely necessary. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The lack of strategic control is costing more profit than they can possibly imagine. The creation of a strategic control system can create, almost immediately, increases in profits, productivity and personnel improvements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The business plan that never fails is a prototype of your business based on three different but integrated activities through which your business can pursue its natural evolution. They are improvement, knowledge and organization of products, people and processes.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Improvement<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Improvement is to make products and services better, faster, cheaper, easier to use and so forth. This becomes your unique advantage, the true value of your business offering.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Knowledge<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Improvement leads nowhere without its own knowledge. Without measuring the results of the improvement you would never know if it really worked better. This is the numbers part of the system, finding the answers to: How many? How much? What changes must be made?<\/p>\n<p>Once you improve a process and measure its impact on the product\/service and people; and once you know it works; it is time to organize the total process.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Organization<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Without organization, nothing is truly predictable by you, your employees or your customers. If people are choosing to do whatever they want and do things differently using their own discretion rather than creating order, then they are creating chaos. What every great entrepreneur and business success founder has said is \u201cif you don\u2019t organize it, you don\u2019t own it.\u201d If you don\u2019t own it you can\u2019t depend on it and if you can\u2019t depend on it, you haven\u2019t got a chance for long term success because you can\u2019t replicate it so you can\u2019t scale it and you have nothing unique so you can\u2019t increase profit.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The First Goal is Profits<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The first objective of your strategy is profits. What is your forecast of what your revenues will be? What will your profit be? What will your expenses be? What will your net profit be? How much money does the business need to earn to pay people better, to pay down debt, to arrive at an exciting valuation, not just in income but, more importantly in assets?<\/p>\n<p>Is the idea worth pursuing? Are there enough customers you can identify and service to make it worthwhile? What will you sell and to whom? The idea is to focus on what makes your services\/products, processes and people more unique than competitors to capture the underserved markets.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Systems<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no limit on goals but it\u2019s critical to know that objectives must be achieved through a system. A system includes the result it is to achieve, the steps to be done, the standards, measurements and information that interacts with other systems.<\/p>\n<p>It includes structure or what you do and context is how you do it. If you want to create a more profitable and prosperous business, you must analyze your business: as it is now, then plan what you want it to be. That gap between where you want it to be and where you need it to be will lead to what needs to be done. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The gap is always created by products\/services, processes and people<\/span>. 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